The Remarkable (and Surprisingly Surreal) Landscape of the Atacama
The Atacama desert. A line read in a geography book long ago, its claim to textbook status was ‘driest place on Earth’. And it stuck...
Scuba Diving in Easter Island was Epic, but Crazy Cold
Damn that’s cold! The shock of the entry cascaded across my whole body instantly. My skin felt like it would jump out of the suit and...
Launching My Pacific Odyssey in Orongo
I decided to hike to Orongo, feeling motivated after my successful attempts to visit the moai sites of Rapa Nui. As the ritual site representing...
The Expert Navigators who Discovered Easter Island
If, like me, you wonder about the explorers who discovered Easter Island, you have to go to Ahu Akivi. It was my fifth day on...
What to See along the Coastline to Anakena Beach
We couldn’t go to Poike, after I was finished at Rano Raraku. My taxi driver told me that the volcano peak was closed for visitors,...
The Actually Not So Mysterious Easter Island Heads
The quarry site of Rano Raraku is very near to Tongariki. The images you have probably seen of the ‘Easter Island heads’ are from this...